Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bram Hessels (21 Lists)



The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich
Best Popular Anthropology Books on Goodreads
362 books — 46 voters
The Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst W. MayrCharles Darwin by Janet BrowneDarwin's Sacred Cause by Adrian J. DesmondDarwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and... by Robert J. RichardsThe Man Who Organized Nature by Gunnar Broberg
The History of Biology
39 books — 3 voters

Mixed Messages by Robert PaulThe Cultural Animal by Roy F. BaumeisterThe Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
On Human Nature
52 books — 63 voters
What Makes Us Social? by Chris Frith
Social Animal
78 books — 18 voters

The Evolution of Language by W. Tecumseh FitchLanguage Evolution by Morten H. ChristiansenThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerThe Dawn of Language by Sverker JohanssonThe First Word by Christine Kenneally
Language Evolution
25 books — 10 voters
The Dawn of Language by Sverker Johansson
Paleoanthropology - or - the Process of Hominization
76 books — 21 voters

The Secret of Our Success by Joseph HenrichWho We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich
Biological Anthropology
101 books — 4 voters
The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich
Big History
265 books — 106 voters

Survival of the Friendliest by Brian HareHumankind by Rutger BregmanThe Kindness of Strangers by Michael E. McCulloughA Natural History of Human Morality by Michael TomaselloThe Quest for a Moral Compass by Kenan Malik
The Psychology of Morality
82 books — 55 voters
The Quest for a Moral Compass by Kenan MalikThe WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph HenrichThe Great Chain of Being by Arthur O. LovejoyThe Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah BerlinRadical Enlightenment by Jonathan I. Israel
History of ideas and culture
104 books — 26 voters

The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
All Non-Fiction on Goodreads with 10,000 to 24,999 ratings
920 books — 38 voters
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
The Most Popular Non-Fiction on Goodreads
325 books — 167 voters

The Freedom Principle by John LitweilerAs serious as your life by Val Wilmer
The Avant-Garde Jazz
14 books — 3 voters
Who We Are and How We Got Here by David ReichNeanderthal Man by Svante PääboA Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam RutherfordAncestors in Our Genome by Eugene E. HarrisMy European Family by Karin Bojs
Human Population Genetics
68 books — 16 voters

What Makes Biology Unique? by Ernst W. MayrThe Growth of Biological Thought by Ernst W. MayrThe "Origin" Then and Now by David N. Reznick
Evolutionary Science
96 books — 31 voters
Darwin's Unfinished Symphony by Kevin N. LalandThe Secret of Our Success by Joseph HenrichSocial Anthropology and Human Origins by Alan BarnardWhat It Means to Be Human by Joanna BourkeThe Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams
The Human Animal
139 books — 105 voters

Mother Nature by Sarah Blaffer HrdyThe Mating Mind by Geoffrey MillerThe Secret of Our Success by Joseph HenrichThe Ape that Understood the Universe by Steve Stewart-WilliamsNot by Genes Alone by Peter J. Richerson
Evolutionary Psychology
233 books — 94 voters
The Enlightenment, Volume 2 by Peter GayRadical Enlightenment by Jonathan I. Israel
The Enlightenment and its Impact
261 books — 86 voters

The Secret of Our Success by Joseph HenrichWired for Culture by Mark PagelNot by Genes Alone by Peter J. RichersonThe Evolved Apprentice by Kim SterelnyA Different Kind of Animal by Robert Boyd
Cultural Evolution & Biological Evolution
80 books — 14 voters
The Secret of Our Success by Joseph HenrichDarwin's Unfinished Symphony by Kevin N. LalandThe "Origin" Then and Now by David N. Reznick
Best Books on Evolution...
267 books — 216 voters

The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
201 books — 105 voters